The colonels will operate under rules laid down by President George W. Bush for what he called a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
This sounds no different to me than when I was in Grade 2 and all the kids each pronounced their own rules to playground tag. Apparently since al-Qaeda is not an official nation there are no touchbacks. Okay, so they're not a nation. But where then does this justify those held in Iraq, and 'suspects' all over the world of various nationalities on apparent whims, or saying the wrong thing.
Apparently if things aren't going your way, you can throw a tantrum (a la unilateral, or bilateral I suppose as Blair bought into the whole thing, miltary invasion) and then do whatever you please, and use every loophole you can find to hold every person imaginable in an attempt to be free of terrorism. The irony here slaps one in the face so hard that you have to wonder where exactly the heads of those 'in charge' really are.
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